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I am a writer, editor, teacher, and translator. My positions have included 2009 Distinguished Northwest Writer in Residence at Seattle University and 2006-2008 Writer in Residence at Richard Hugo House, Seattle's literary center. My nonfiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in more than forty magazines and journals based in seven countries. I have also published poetry and short story translations (from Spanish). In many publications my photographs accompany my writing. All the images on this website, unless otherwise noted, are mine. I recently completed the manuscript for a narrative nonfiction book, No Word for Welcome, which explores how economic globalization intersects with village life in southern Mexico. I also work as a freelance editor and writing coach. I co-edited, with Mark Kramer, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Plume/Penguin, 2007), which is widely used by working journalists and by creative writing professors. A recent article in Poets & Writers calls Telling True Stories "one of the best books available on narrative nonfiction." |
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For those in the Seattle area, please come see the La Sala show Sustainability / Sostenibilidad, a bilingual, photographic and literary exhibit at the Benham Gallery. The show runs until July 11 (open until 8 pm for First Thursday, July 2.) My essay "Grief's Hidden Gift," published in Yes! Magazine's Winter 2009 issue, won an Excellence in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists of Washington. It is the first in a series of essays I will be completing in the next year, with generous support from 4Culture. |
Photo above by Tom Collicott, 2007 |
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